[Doc Holliday]

FYI
The reason the it is not classified as a sport is a simple one, see Title IX.
Federal govt. said that it is a supporting group similar to band. Thus those who cheer can't be counted in the title IX reports. If cheerleading had been classified as a sport then schools could end the following programs, girls soccer, Volleyball, and basketball.
Plain and simple. Title IX requires all schools receiving federal money to provide a sport to balance out the descrepancy in funding of male and female programs.

So is it a sport, in many aspects yes, as far as definitions go, however when it came to the supreme court and our federal govt, no.

The reasons schools have softball teams, they have to if they offer baseball.
If you have football, you have to offer volleyball
mens basketball, you have to offer womens.

Its the law of the land. If cheerleading would have been deemed a varsity sport then schools could have said we have cheerleading no need to offer anything else, and where would that have left those that love the sports I just mentioned.

All you have to do is look at state championships records in any state prior to Title IX
as opposed to the ones they offer today.